Show an ty sy by macharg EDWIN BALMER BALDER by little brown and company compani SHIELD HIM seattle capitalist warden ali gabriel briel tells tila ills butler he la Is ox expecting without to be admitted caller of ills wife ife informs question that threat ei Is him it if he danger considers th tho a pursues honorable a cour correo be one caa he ho warden arden leaves only meets a and nd in his is car th the house into the n machine a ile he takes whom mail homo home when the car returns wara warden Is found dead murdered the caller a young and alone alona has been at WE wardens iddins house man d bob conner un unobserved observe but leaves receives orders to to conductor pery hold train for a par party ty five men train in the the ISO board and nd a girl the eastern ax presa press T tho h 0 fa for the person dome borne Is mr sirl girl philip hold whom tho the train was acob man 1 D eaton a lahla boarded the ile train dorno adorno tel 13 secretary don on and his sec avery laughter daughter to lo find out wh what a 0 they o cabi can concerning him the two make to la batons acquaint acquaintance anc 0 dorne dome found nearly dead fr from om a murder assault A surgeon operates 0 ous us san dome Is revealed as wasll tolne colne blind and a power in tile the financial world as t the ile advisor adviser of big bl interests eaton Is suspected and que questioned stio ned lie refuses information admits about himself and he was the caller at wardens house eaton pleads with harriot harriet to withro withhold id judgment telling ellin tier her he to is in earious dain danger I 1 or though innocent of against tier her father he feels tile the girl believes him Bant olno recovers sufficiently to iiii question estion eaton who refuses ills his I 1 identity entity d the hn financier ancier requires eaton to pany him to the Rant Sant olna olne homo home AS aa it a semi prisoner naton katon meets IL a resident of bt tho the ho houam use wallace blatchford and mildred davis FA a stenographer teno grapher with whom he Is a ac 0 ted though they conceal the ahe fact batons mission la is to secure certain documents which are vital to hla his interests harriet tells fella eaton the she and donald avery act as aa eyes to Bant sant olne while wAIR walking 1119 with her men in an automobile deliberately attempt torun to arun eaton eato n down the girl recognizes one of the men AS having been on the train 11 CHAPTER XII continued 10 to to kill him harriet how do you yon bowl low she call caught bers herself eif 1 I I 1 dont don t now low father He Ile certainly me antto jure mr eaton when I 1 sold said kill V am m I 1 was telling only what I 1 bought blought I 1 that la Is better I 1 think too he meant to kill mr aft eaton baton yes yea she watched hec he fathers face ten aften when relating things to him be ie was aware from hla his expression hot at she elie was telling felling him only some som ping ing he already had figured out necked or even knew she fett that w father did you expect mr enton en ton 0 be attacked C expect not that exactly 7 it was I 1 I 1 suspected something like his Is might inight occur I 1 and you did not warn him the blind mans hands sought each her on the coverlet and I 1 clasped zether it WP not necessary to warn m harriet mr eaton already ew who was in the car three men had you seen tiny any of them arii before biffiel yes tea one tho the man who drove 11 where on the train ithe the color on San frico face grow grew brighter Des describe him fill dear he waited while she called together ber r recollections of the man 1 I cant describe him very fully bather Pa ither ther she bhe said ho he was one of the 3 people who had berelis in tho the for mard ird sleeping car I 1 ian can recall seel ing him only bif when n I 1 passed through tte 3 car I 1 recall him only twice la in that it car and once in the diner of that la Is interesting Inter eating said san colne ne WI what father that in five days upon tho the train 1011 n saw the man only three afire almea you mean he must have kept out ou 0 sight as much as possible have bare you forgotten that I 1 as asked ked YOU i to describe him harriet T she checked hers herself elf height about live i feet five she said bro broad fid 6 hOuld shouldered lul dered ered very heavily get I 1 re arus biber he impressed me ine as being un ally muscular ills his hallwas hair was icik black cant ant recall the color of his eyes c cheeks eel were ivere blue with biti a heavy ird clo closely selly shaved fre I 1 remember member hla his face e was and hla his clothes geere re spotted with dropped croppe d food I 1 it t seems hard bard for or nic mo to recall hini him 1 I 1 cant describe him very tery well ot 1 nut bilt you lire are sura BUM it was alis the sa same 6 man n in the motor yes he seemed an animal sort person small till strong and not dol par t ilaray intelligent it seems hard for roe ane to remember wore more about him than n that that Is interest interesting ng 1 whitt ir I 1 aar that it Is hard for you to kemem hayt ve very ry wll well 0 why father her fattier did not tins answer the th 0 other men in the motor lie ho asked 1 I cant describe thorn 1 I 1 was excited about mr air katon thank you dear bring enton to me ine ho hns has gono gone to ills his ro room an to ji 0 self up ill solid send for him then Sant olne pressed one of the but buttons tolis beldo hla his bed to coll call a servant but before the bell could bu bo answered lin harriet arlet got cot up ril ill go myself she eho enid silo she went out into the hall anti and closed tho the door behind her isho bho wilted until she heard tho the approaching steps molls of tile tho man summoned by san kolnos bell then going to meet him film silo sho sent him to call enton eaton in ills his rooms tind and sho she still waited until the man came back and nd told tier her laton eaton had already loft left tits hla rooms find and gone downstairs she dismissed the man and went to tho the lend head of the stairs but bur tier her steps slowed there hero tind stopped stopped silo she knew chilt the blind mans thought in regard to io enton had taken some immense lin menso stride but she did not know what that stride had been or what was coming now when her father saw eaton site went on slowly down tho the stairs and when halfway down silo elio saw ration in fit tho the halt hall below her he was standing beside tile tho table which held field the bronze antique vaso lie ho seemed to have taken something from the HIP aso und and to bo be examining it she halted again to watch him film then site she went on and ile bo turned at the sound of her footsteps she could see ns as silo she approached him film what lie had taken from tho the vase but sho she attached no Import importance nilee to it it was only a black button from a womans comans glove one of tier her own perhaps perlin ps which she had find dropped without noticing ho tossed it indifferently toward tile the open fim fireplace pInce ns as ho be came caino toward tier her father wants to see you mr eaton silo she sal ann 1 no he looked at her In for tin an instant and seemed to detect some strangeness in tier her manner tind to draw himself together then lie he to followed her up tho the stairs CHAPTER XIII it grows plainer basil Ban San bedroom was so nearly soundproof sound proof that anything going on in the room could not he be heard beardin he ardin in the hall outside it even close to tile the double doors eaton as they approached these doors listened vainly trying to determine whether anyone was in the room with san tolne colne then lie ho quickened his step to bring him beside harriet one on 0 moment please miss san ban tolne colne 11 lie ho urged she stopped what Is 19 it you want your father has received some answer to the inquiries lie has been having made about me 1 I dont know mr eaton Is lie he alone yes eaton thought a minute rol nute that Is all I 1 wanted to know then he said harriet opened the outer door and knocked on the inner one eaton heard San Santol nos voice at once calling thera them to como come in and as harriet opened the second door he followed cherinto he the room ani am I 1 to remain father she asked yes commanded eaton waited while she went to a choir at the foot of the bed and seated herself her clasped hands rei beiting reiting ting on the footboard and her chin upon her bands in a position to watch both eaton rind and her father while they talked then eaton sat cat down good morning eaton the blind man greci greeted ed him good morn morning ing mr Sant olne eaton answered Sant olne olife was lying quietly upon ills his back his head raised on the pillows his him arms above the bed covers his fingertips finger tips touching with the fingers spread you recall of ourse course eaton our conversation on the ahe train santo ine sold evenly yes 1 I wont want to coll call your attention in a certain order to some of the details of what wl lk hopr wed on the train you had bad rather a close call this morning did you not bather lin ther I 1 was w as careless you were careless Baat IS olne smiled derisively perhaps you were in ono one in another however you hove have been very careful eaton you have been careful to att act us though the attempt I 1 to 0 run yon on down could not have been a deliberate attack you were careful to call it an accident you were careful not to recognize any of the three men in the motor 1 I had no chance to recognize any of ahcin mr Sant Swit olne entea replied eastly easily 1 I did not ot see eee the car coming 1 I was thrown from my feet when I 1 got up it was too far away awa for me to recognize agn ize anyone perhaps so hut but 1 tru ere you is sur it r priscil irl sel when hen my daughter ter recognized one of them na lis lill having vIng been on oil the with etli us its your lour question exactly ill tile atie case I 1 thought miss lind made it mistake 11 hut you were oro not surprised od no what would hao been it surprise to you inton would linao ano been if you ou lind had find a chance to observe tile tho nien men to lino found that nono none of them none of them lind been on oil tho the train I 1 eliton diton lind and felt that ito do anil colored how much did Sant olne inov 0 rind flad tile ho find blind ician received roc elved ns as enton feared sonio some answer to ills his Iti inquiries quirles aich imd had reveies rove Jod ed or ne arly revealed antons In Ula tons identity or ans na it merely ino iLly clint tho the nindo on oa enton alint mornine lind find given san tofile new light on tho the events chilt had bapp happened ened on tho the iraln ind and eaton guessed on tile iho cl acle telegram arnin which Sant olno to linao havo you sunia vint mr Sant olne ho hd assorted ns sorted because bec 11 ito iio checked himself and altered ills his sentence hlll you tell mo ino why you assume that that alint would have havo surprised you yes tant Is I 1 you in here her to tell you As SantOl lle waited n ino moment trient before bo boic going on haton watch watched eq him anxiously tho the blind ninn turned himself on alij la 11 so BO as to face enton more diorec directly y just ten anys ngo ago hj ha said eald evenly and 1 I was as found unconscious in my berth section three of the rearmost sleeper on tile trans continental train which I 1 had bad taken W with ith my laughter and ampry at sz sc attle i lind had been attacked attached assailed luring during my sleep some time in lint first night tint flint I 1 sp spent ont on ail the he train and my condition was serious enough so that for three lays I 1 was not alky allowed red to receive tiny of nf tho the ol of alint had happened to tile me whon when I 1 did finally learn tile them in I 1 naturally attempted to make ceran n in deductions as to who it was that it had d to murder me and why lind over ever since ellice I 1 have c continued to occupy myself alth aith those questions I 1 tim going to tell lell you a few of my deductions it if you fancy I 1 am at fault in my conclusions wait until y you it discover your error Sant Stint olne waited tin nn instant enton eaton thought it was to allow him film to speak if ho he wanted to but bat enton merely waited the first thing 1 learned 11 tho the blind man went on was the plin similarity flarity of th the e attack 6 on n me to the more successful attack on warden twelve clays previous which and caused unused its hla tenth death the method of the two attacks was the same tho the conditions surrounding them ibern were very similar tha desperate nature of the two attacks and their almost identical method made it practically certain that they originated at the same source and were carried out probably by tho the some same land hand and tw for the same pur purpose poe mrs wardens statement to me of her interview with tier her husband ra half hour before his murder made it certain that the object of the attack on him vas to remove him it seemed almost inevitable therefore that the attack on me must have been for cor the same purpose 1 I found that a young man yourself had acted so suspiciously both before and after the attack on roe me that both avery and the alib conductor in charge of the train had become convinced that he wits was my aEsa assailant llant wid had segregated him film from the rest of tile the passengers not only this but and this seemed quite conclusive to them you admitted that you ou were the one who had called upon warden the evening evenin of hla his milr murder der it seemed likely too that you were th clr only person on the tran aside froin my daughter and avery who knew who I 1 was waa for I 1 had had reason to believe fro from the time when I 1 first heard beard you speak peak when you boarded tho the train that you were someone with whom I 1 had previously very briefly come in contact and I 1 had asked roy my daughter to find out who you were and she had bail tried to do so but without success suei I 1 E aton wet his lips also the blind pan man continued there was wao a telegram which d definitely showed that there was some connection tion unknown to me between you and me as well as a second or rather a previous suspicious telegram in cipher which we were able to translate you were going to say bay something about that telegram in cipher sari san asked no eaton baton dented denied 1 I think you were and I 1 think that a few minutes ago when I 1 said you were not surprised ed by the attempt made today to run you down you were also going to tb speak of it for that attempt mal malea ca clear the meaning of the jile telegram its meaning was not clear to me before you understand it sald said only onit that you were ivere kiowa and followed it if did not say why you were followed I 1 could ifould not be certain of that there were several possible reasons why you might be W followed even that the one who avas was following night might be q someone se secretly inie interested in pro preventing venting you from an attack afi on me now ito however alever I 1 know that the reason you feared the mhd man mio was following ans because you expected hint to attack you knowing that anton know IlIg that I 1 want to call your attention tt tile the peculiarity of our mutual positions on the train you lind naked for and occupying section three in tile third sl sleeper in ili order I 1 assume and I 1 bellove believe correctly to avoid being put in tho same cur car with me in ili tile night tho second sleeper tho car next in front of yours was cut oft off from tile tho traian and loft left behind that nindo nio occupy in relation to tile the forward part of tile the train exactly exacts tile the same position ns its you oil had occupied file car bhend of you find been cut out I 1 was in ili section tareo in tho the third sleeper from tho the front raton euton stared nt at Santol nel fasci tinted what alint find bean orly only vague half felt half formed with was becoming t doh nito under tho the |